Artificial Intelligence: Co-Creator or Competitor in the Cultural Sector?
This edition maps out what AI means for cultural institutions and creative practitioners. For some, AI opens new creative horizons and acts as a tool for experimentation. Others see it as a threat — not only to jobs, but to the autonomy of artistic expression.
Boekman #143: Art and AI is now available here
In the opening article, CARADT Professor Michel van Dartel challenges the fear that AI will replace artists. Instead, he introduces the idea of AI as responsive material — something to interact with, reflect upon, and critically engage. Artists use AI to be surprised, to co-create, and to question the ethics of data, energy consumption, and surveillance.
Read ‘Bedreiging noch wondermiddel: De impact van AI op kunst en cultuur‘ (in Dutch).
By Pieter Bots, Ronald Nijboer, Sarah Haaij, Eva van den Boogaard, Ewout van der Linden, Twan Arts, Joke de Wolf, Caspar de Kiefte, Jens Meijen, Elodie Heloise, Liesbeth Bik, Annabel Essink, Jack van der Leden, René van Peer, Cas Smithuijsen, Tonya Sudiono, Liesbeth Grotenhuis, and André Nuchelmans.
About the Boekman Foundation
The Boekman Foundation is the independent knowledge centre for arts and cultural policy in the Netherlands. It collects, analyzes, and shares data on the cultural sector to inform and inspire artists, researchers, policy makers, and institutions. Boekman is its quarterly journal.
‘People are the product of their relationships with their environment. It’s important to understand how technological developments influence these relationships.’
Michel van Dartel is Research Professor Situated Art, Design and Technology at the Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT) and was affiliated with V2_Lab for the Unstable Media between 2005-2024. He holds an MSc in cognitive psychology and a PhD in artificial intelligence.
Living in cities developed around data and acting within the inscrutable structure of our techno-society demands art and design that can help understand how we relate to these rapidly changing surroundings and to reflect on that relationship. The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology responds to this exigency by fostering a situated turn in art and design through a diverse portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects in partnership with academic and cultural partners, as well as with government and industry.
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